{"id":317,"date":"2025-09-17T19:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T19:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fasstnews.com\/?p=317"},"modified":"2025-09-17T19:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T19:25:09","slug":"washington-post-fires-columnist-karen-attiah-over-posts-after-charlie-kirks-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fasstnews.com\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post fires columnist Karen Attiah over posts after Charlie Kirk\u2019s murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-90291\" class=\"post-90291 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail category-news\">\n<div class=\"post-content-wrap has-share-float\">\n<div class=\"post-content cf entry-content content-spacious\">\n<p>Karen Attiah, an opinion columnist for The Washington Post, has been fired after posting a number of controversial things on social media after Charlie Kirk was killed.<\/p>\n<p>In a Substack essay on Monday, Attiah confirmed that she had been fired. The paper called her comments \u201cunacceptable posts on social media.\u201d The posts came after the death of Kirk, who was 31 years old and the founder of Turning Point USA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of what keeps America so violent is the insistence that people perform care, empty goodness, and absolution for white men who espouse hatred and violence,\u201d one of Attiah\u2019s posts on Bluesky said.<\/p>\n<p>Another said, \u201cNot tearing my clothes and putting ashes on my face to show how sad I am about a white man who supported violence is not the same as violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"entered lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nba-daily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/karen-attiah-001-instagram.jpg?fit=600%2C751&amp;ssl=1\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nba-daily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/karen-attiah-001-instagram.jpg?fit=600%2C751&amp;ssl=1\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post said that her Bluesky posts were \u201cunacceptable,\u201d \u201cgross misconduct,\u201d and put her coworkers\u2019 physical safety at risk.<\/p>\n<h3>Attiah\u2019s Answer<\/h3>\n<p>Attiah strongly denied the charges in her Substack post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey quickly fired me without even talking to me,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThis was not only a hasty overreach, but it also broke the very standards of fairness and rigor that the Post says it upholds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said she was fired for \u201cspeaking out against political violence, racial double standards, and America\u2019s lack of concern for guns.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>The background of Kirk\u2019s murder<\/h3>\n<p>Kirk, a well-known conservative commentator, was shot and killed last week. Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old from Utah, has been arrested and is set to appear in court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"instagram-embed-0\" class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOb-tbwEhGg\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=540&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fnew24.info&amp;rp=%2F90291%3Ffbclid%3DIwY2xjawM36jZleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFMQW1PbUhnTzVEQ0E0c2dYAR6pgT65dHr0tKFhrvfv9MDSb1hiGKn6k36OPtWB-_exd_Jg5_f00_PO2y7Elg_aem_AziSb2JQ9oH1FZPkj21_Sw#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A1677.2000000029802%2C%22ls%22%3A1414.2000000029802%2C%22le%22%3A1431.4000000059605%7D\" height=\"706\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe>Attiah wrote in her essay that she felt \u201csadness and fear for America\u201d after the shooting. She also said that the country often ignores political violence. One of her most popular posts said, \u201cFor everyone who says there is no place for political violence in this country\u2026 Two Democratic lawmakers were shot in Minnesota this year, so keep that in mind. \u201cAnd America didn\u2019t care and went on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She went on to say that her comments were \u201cdescriptive, backed up by data, and not new or false.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>A Bigger Debate<\/h3>\n<p>Attiah has been in the news a lot lately, and this firing is the latest. In 2021, she got a lot of hate for tweeting that Black people were \u201clucky\u201d that white women were \u201cjust calling them Karens and not calling for revenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Attiah said she only directly mentioned Kirk once when she quoted one of his past controversial comments about Black women.<\/p>\n<p>She said that her firing was part of a bigger problem: \u201cWhat happened to me is part of a larger effort to silence Black voices in academia, business, government, and the media\u2014something that has happened before and is just as dangerous as it is shameful.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"post-share-bot\"><span class=\"info\">Share.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Attiah, an opinion columnist for The Washington Post, has been fired after posting a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fasstnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fasstnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fasstnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fasstnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fasstnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fasstnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/fasstnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fasstnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fasstnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fasstnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fasstnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}